Visit-Montenegro.com: The Play which celebrates a Theatre
Theater City: Jasna Djuricic and Boris Isakovic, protagonists of the play “Greta” had an excellent reception by the audience in Budva. The story of the play is conceived as a peculiar and witty “theatre in theatre” and it is about various types of actors and directors who participate in the process of creation of one theatrical performance.
Budva: The penultimate theatrical performance from this year Drama programme of the Theatre City Festival, a hit comedy “Greta, str. 89” (Greta, pg.89), directed by Boris Lijesevic, in the production of the Serbian National Theatre from Novi Sad, had an excellent reception by the audience in Budva. Characters of the story of the German dramatist Luca Hilbern, played by Jasna Djuricic and Boris Isakovic were greeted with loud applause at the stage of the Terrace between the churches.
This play, which is based on Goethe’s Faust, before its performance in Budva was played in the entire Istra (with 11 towns in Istra, Lijesevic’s performance holds the record in the number of guest performances). After performance in Budva Theatre City, the Montenegrin audience had chance to see it at the festival in Tivat.
The story is conceived as a peculiar and witty “theatre in theatre” and it is about various types of actors and directors during the process of the creation of the theatrical performance.
“At the first place, ‘Greta’ is the play which celebrates the theatre,” says Jasna Đuričić. “I play nine characters of various actors, from the one who is at the beginning of her career to the one who is a star, who constantly have problem to perform that what is asked from them by various directors – beginners, “great authors”, “lovers”, doyens living in the past… I am not sure with which character of those various actors I play I identify mostly. I think that I am not completely alike any of them, but probably each one of them is a part of me in some way and that during some “phase” they “have run through” my personality even for a moment.”
The comedy by Luc Hibner was a great challenge for the director Boris Lijesevic who found great satisfaction in working on it.
“The text has many elements of humor, at some places there are even witty “edges”, but it is very hearty and it speaks about theatre with love, about everything that happens between actors and directors. Hibner gives us here all those humorous situations we face while working on a performance and that incessant “collision” of the various characters, talents, emotions, experiences and perceptions of a theatre turned out to be very exciting and became a show of itself,” says the director who also signs theatrical performances “U kulisama duse“ (In Sceneries of the Soul), „Feniks“ (Phoenix), Dva viteza iz Verone“ (Two Gentlemen of Verona), „Opstinsko dijete“ (Municipal Child), Beograd – London“ (Beograd-London), „Prisustvo“ (The Presence), the movie „Gvozdeni krst “ (Iron Cross) and a documentary “Luka”. With those he participated at numerous festivals in the region and abroad.
By A.K.